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ASHURST PREDICTS
DELAY ON COURT
VOTE UNTIL JULY
Judiciary Committee Chair
man Expects Hearings to
Run Into April.
ARIZONAN SEES TIDE
RISING FOR PRESIDENT
*‘1 Am for Bill as It Is—Even to
Split Infinitives," He
Declares.
BACKGROUND—
Democratic hopes of smooth leg
islative sailing with an overwhelm
ing Senate majority began to fade
immediately ajter February 5, when
President Roosevelt asked congres
sional authority to name six new
justices to the Supreme Court un
less present incumbents over 70
retire.
Although administration leaders
forecast early passage, some Demo
cratic Senators balked at the pro
posal and mapped plans to defeat
it if possible, ,4s a result, regular
Senate business has dwindled to
the vanishing point, with little like
lihood of returning to normalcy
until court controversy has been
settled.
By G. GOl'LD LINCOLN.
Predicting the Senate will not vote
en President Roosevelt's court hill until
July, Chairman Ashurst of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee said last
night the hearings on the measure
by his committee probably . .1 run
until the middle of April.
Opponents of the plan to increase
the membership of the Supreme Court
to a maximum of 15 reiterated their
confidence that they can defeat the
proposal, but Ashurst, declaring delay
is in the President's favor, said he
believed the bill will be passed.
Deaf to alternative plans, the An
ions legislator said:
"I am for the President’s bill as
It is—even to split infinitives.”
The committee held no meeting yes
terday and postponed its session
scheduled for tomorrow until " uesday.
It. had been expected the opponents
of the bill would beg.n presentation
of their case tomorrow, but Chairman
Ashurst acceded to a request for ad
ditional time for preparation of their
case.
Proponents to Continue.
Consequently, the proponents of the
measure, who presented witnesses last
week, will continue their testimony
Tuesday. James M. Landi. chairman
of the Securities and Exchan' Com
mission, who is resigning to become
dean of the Harvard Law r chool, may
be called in support of the fail’
The opponents now plan to begin
testimony March 22, and will pre
sent a long list of witnesses, includ
ing many Democrats and liberals.
Senator Ashurst based his predic
tion that the bill will hot be voted
on in the Senate bpfore July, on the
expectation that debate on the floor
may run through May and June and
Into July.
Asserting the hearings of his com
mittee would be continued "as long as
possible,” he added:
"When the bill came up we were
at the bottom of the well, but the bill
Is now moving upward. I may be
licked, but I have been licked before.
We want this whole thing buckled up.
and we ought to get rid of it one way
or the other before we go. It is like
a hangnail and nobody likes to handle
a blanket with a hangnail. If neces
sary we should remain until July for
a final vote.”
Committee Split Even.
Chairman Ashurst admitted he
might have trouble getting the bill
favorably reported out of his com
mittee at this time. The commit
tee, he said, seems to be divided, 9 to
R. on the measure. He hopes time
will cure this division and give him
a majority in the committee.
"The support of the President’s
court bill is at its peak today, in my
opinion, and if a vote were taken now
In the Senate that part affecting the
Supreme Court would fail,” Senator
Wheeler of Montana, liberal Demo
crat and one of the leaders of the op
position, declared.
“There are from 42 to 4« Senators
opposed to granting any increase in
the membership of the court,” con
tinued Wheeler, “and a majority of
the Senate against granting an in
crease of six, or even an increase of
four. Some of the Senators included
In this group might support a straight
out proposal to increase the court by
two. I am opposed to any increase
Under the present circumstances.”
Ashurst said he does not take much
etock in the proposal of Senator Pitt
man of Nevada, who wants to amend
the court bill so as to make the addi
tion of six members of the Supreme
Court mandatory instead of condi
tional upon the failure of justices who
have reached 70>2 years of age to
retire.
The Arizona Senator said that
whereas his mail from his own State
had at first been strongly in opposition
to the bill, he is now receiving more
letters in support of it than against.
The mail from all parts of the country
Is still running more against the
measure, he admitted. But, he said,
whereas at first the letters ran 50
to 1 against, now the letters are very
much more evenly divided.
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia,
(See JUDICIARY, Page A-3.)
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Mexican Politician Slain.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon, Mexico,
March 13 (fl3).—Roberto F. Garcia,
former Mayor of Matamoros and can
didate for the House of Deputies, was
ahot and killed in a restaurant here
last night.
A man identified as Manuel Morales,
Who had been sentenced to prison at
Matamoros during Garcia’s term as
Mayor, svas arrested.
Radio Programs, Page F-3.
Complete Index, Pare A-2.
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Miss Earliart to Start Today
With 3 Aides on Hawaii Lap
Of Globe-Girdling Air Jaunt
Take-Off Is Planned at San Francisco
Airport—Radio and Compass Checked
in Final Test Trip.
BACKGROUND—
Amelia Earhart has prepared in
recent months for ’round-the-world
flight of 27.000 miles to follow
equator as nearly as possible. Pur
pose of flight to test human en
durance and reveal effect of fatigue
on human body in long flights.
Much of trip will be over un
charted air routes, and she will
cross equator four times. Starting
from California, flight will take her
over Howland Island in Pacific
Australia. Philippine Islands. India,
Africa, South America and Mexico.
BY C. B. ALLEN.
Special Dispatch to The Star
OAKLAND. Calif, March 13— A
shift in Amelia Earhart's take-off
plans whereby she will start her 27,000
mile round-the-world flight from Mills
Field, San Francisco's new municipal
airport, instead of from Oakland's
older and larger flying field, was
announced today. This decision fol
lowed final test flights of her ship
and a careful examination of runways
at both airports by Paul Mantz, who
has been her technical adviser in
preparation for the globe-circling ad
venture and will accompany her as
relief pilot as far as Honolulu. She is
now scheduled to start this 2,410-mile
leg on the world trip between 4 and 5
pm. tomorrow.
Mantz and Miss Earhart, when they
took her Wasp-motored Lockheed Elec
tra "flying laboratory” up today for a
two-hour radio and compass check, on
which they went nearly 100 miles out
to sea, discovered that two days of
almost continuous rain had softened
the Oakland municipal airport run
ways to a point where they believed
them hazardous for a heavy-load
take-off such as will be necessary on
the trip to Hawaii. Mantz later drove
his car at high speed up and down the
hard-surface "apron” in front of the
hangar line on the big field with a
view to its possible use tomorrow, but
found it rough and less to his liking
than the shorter but table-like run
ways at Mills Field.
The longest take-off strip avail
able at the latter airport is 3.000 feet,
as compared to the 3.696-foot "apron”
i See EARHART. Page A-6.)
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Tells Geneva Rebels Plan
Italo-German Drive on
Capital and Coast.
BACKGROUND—
Charges and counter-accusations
made by loyalists and rebels in
the Spanish civil war have insisted
soldiers and supplies of foreign
powers are participating in the
struggle. Indignation among na
tions named as friendly and active
gave place to international moves
to avoid spread of war by forcing
neutrality upon all allegedly im
plicated. Sea coast patrols have
been allotted.
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA. March 13 —The Spanish
[ government, in a new protest to the
League of Nations, today set forth de
tails of a purported insurgent plan
for Italian troops to capture Madrid
while Italo-German squadrons ad
vanced against, the costal cities of
Barcelona and Valencia.
The protest formally accused Ger
many and Italy of waging undeclared
war in Spain with regular land and
sea forces.
A telegraphed statement declared
warships of both nations in the new
European neutrality patrol “will at
tack Barcelona and Valencia under
pretext of guarding the coast” while
Madrid is under fire by land forces.
Another note, making the same
charges, was presented to British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in
London with the Spanish govern
ment's request that the Neutrality
Committee investigate "with the least
possible delay."
German troops in Spain, the pro
test to the League asserted, include
tank and machine gun corps and
flame projector companies, all mo
torized divisions.
Italy, it said, has landed four di
visions of her regular arm. three di
visions of blackshirts and a regular
army commander in Spain, ail under
the leadership of a ' Gen. Mangini”
with headquarters at Algora.
The Spanish government charged
the presence of foreign troops was
a "scandalous violation” of interna
tional law and the covenant of the
• See SPAIN, Page A-10.)
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VENEZUELA ORDERS
48 EXILED AS REDS
Student Leader Jovita Villalba
Among Group Told to Leave
Within Eight Days.
Br the Assodatea Press.
CARACAS, Venezuela, March 13.—
Forty-eight persons considered by the
government to be Communists, includ
ing Student Leader Jovito Villalba,
Deputy-elect, were ordered into exile
from Venezuela in a decree published
tonight in the Official Gazette.
The decree ordered the 48 to leave
the country within eight days.
Besides Villalba in the list, among
leading figures, were Romulo Betan
court and Senator-elect Dr. Gonzalo
Barrios.
Villalba, president of the Federation
of Students, is 29. During the dic
tatorship of the late Juan Vicente Go
mez, he spent six years in prison and
later was exiled to Trinidad for crit
icizing Gomez.
The student leader returned to
Caracas, after Gomez' death in 1935, to
resume his study of law and leader
ship of the federation.
F0RW.P.A.IN193B
Eastern Mayors Parley Says
2,800.000 Employables
Will Require Aid.
By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA March 13 —The
Eastern Regional Conference of May
ors adopted a resolution today asking
the Federal Government to appropn- j
ate a minimum of $2,200,000,000 for
Works Progress Administration proj- j
ects in the fiscal year 1938.
The resolution, passed unanimously, I
requested that the appropriations be
made on an annual instead of a
monthly basis. It held that an average
of 2,800,000 employables would re
quire aid during 1938.
Formula Is Indorsed.
The 30 municipal heads also in
dorsed the formula of Federal respon
sibility for employable relief cases and
State or local responsibility for unem- j
ployables. They asked the Govern- !
ment to make additional appropria
tions for unemployed persons who do
not qualify technically for W. P. A.
jobs.
The mayors, discussing the need for
low-cost housing, passed a separate
resolution approving the Wagner .
housing bill.
The conference named Mayor S.
Davis Wilson of Philadelphia as chair
man of a new permanent emergency
committee to serve as a clearing house
between cities in time of floods and
other emergencies.
Wilson earlier presented two checks
of $5,000 each to Mayor Neville Mil
lem of Louisville. Ky., as the balance
of relief funds gathered in Phila
delphia.
Decentralized W. P. A. L'rged.
Frank E>e Bubna, commissioner of
Federal relations of Cleveland, ap
pealed for decentralization of the W.
P. A administration. He said red tape
made it "almost impossible to rush
through W. P. A. projects.”
Mayor Daniel J. Shields of Johns
town said his city would not be "on
the map" if it were not for W. P. A.
funds. He said the Government pro
vided $800,000 to help clean up the
city after the 1936 floods
Mayor Cornelius D. Scully of Pitts
burgh, Pa., said relief rolls are increas- 1
ing in his city despite an improvement
in business.
Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwau- !
kee. who presided at the session,
praised efforts toward low-cost hous- !
ing and said the solution of this prob
lem had saved "several European
countries from revolution.”
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Lanier Gets New Portfolio.
HAVANA, March 13 (&).—Manuel
Gimenez Lanier, secretary of the in
terior, today took over the additional
post of secretary of the treasury,
succeeding Eduardo Montoulieu, whose
resignation was accepted b., Presi
dent Frederic Laredo Bru. Treasury
officials said Montoulieu, Harvard
classmate of President Roosevelt,
would return to his former post as
director of the special public works
fund of the treasury department.
Farmer, Plowing, Strikes Oil.
SHERIDAN, Ind., March 13 (/P).—
G. R. Ballard, plowing on his farm
near here, struck oil, but discovered
today it came from a broken pipe
line that leads from the Texas fields
to Detroit.
Fire that started in a pool of oil
from the broken line swept Ballard's
com field. The oil caused consider
able damage to the land.
Cardenas Will Open Old Tombs
Believed Holding Famed Gems
By the Associated Press.
OAXACA, Mexico, March 13.—Three
tombs of ancient Mixtec and Zapctec
rulers, found in nearby Monte Alban
and believed likely to yield famous
jewels, awaited opening today by
President Lazaro Cardenas,
Alfonso Caso, in charge of excava
tions and archeological work in that
region for the past three years, an
nounced discovery of the tombs but
deferred opening them pending ar
rival of the chief executive, now en
route to Monte Alban on a tour of
southern states.
For three years Caso. on behalf
of the department of education, hu
pushed ahead with his excavation
work. He uncovered tombs a few
l
ago that yielded many treasures and
valuable jewels.
Alfonso Toro, chief of the archeo
logical division of the department of
education, said in Mexico City that
codex-worked stone had been found
at the entrance of one of the new
tombs, indicating the contents likely
would be important.
Casoon January 17, 1932, announced
discovery of an ancient tomb in Monte
Alban which yielded valuable t eas
ures in pearls, gold beads and paint
ings and subsequently discovered more
than 22 other tombs.
A million dollars' worth of jewels
taken from the tombs were exhibited
at the Century of Progress Exposition
in Chicago.
*
D. C. WOMAN AND 1
ON BURNING SHIP
Mrs. Katherine Grenfell Ra
dioes She Is Safe in
Pacific Rescue.
BRITISH FREIGHTER
CREW STAYS ABOARD
Will Try to Take Vessel, Ablaze
Three Days, Into Honolulu.
Destroyer Near.
Bt the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, March 13—The cruiser
Louisville raced more than 350 miles
in less than 12 hours to rescue eight
passengers adrift in lifeboats from the
flaming British ship Silverlarch today.
The Louisville took aboard four
women and four men passengers in the
mid-Paciflc maritime drama.
The Silverlarch's crew of 40 chose
to battle on against the flames in her
hold, rLsking getting their ship to
Honolulu, 400 miles away.
The Louisville radioed the Associated
Press it had transferred the pas
sengers “without mishap’’ and listed
them as follows:
Mrs. Katherine Grenfell, Washing
ton, D C ; Miss Helen A Weller and
Mrs. Michael Weller, Stroudsburg. Pa.;
Mrs. Gladys Norris, New York; Mr.
I. C. Lewis, Barrington. R. I.; Mr.
Harry Dobert, New York: Mr. G. N.
Camp, New York, and Dr. A T.
Wilson, Cincinnati.
The message said the passengers
were on a world cruise and had ex
pressed a desire to return to Honolulu.
The Louisville "ill place them aboard
the destroyer Waters, with Honolulu
as her destination “if the weather
moderates sufficiently,” the radio
gram read.
The message said the Louisville
transferred the passengers at 5:01
Eastern standard time. The Louisville
arrived at the scene at 4 46 pm .
Eastern standard time. The passen
gers had been adrift less than three
hours.
Captain Thanks Rescuers.
Freighter Capt, F. H Henderson
wirelessed congratulation to Capt. W.
S. Farber of the Louisville on his sea
manship and speed and thanked him
for rescuing the passengers. Neither
ship reported details of the transfer.
The Silverlarch announced her in
tention of proceeding to meet the
Coast Guard cutter Roger P. Taney
“and with Taney in attendance hope
to take vessel to Honolulu.”
Persistence of the flames, which
alternately had flared and receded for
three days, caused the Silverlarch to
stop her engines shortly before noon
as she was heading with all possible
speed toward Honolulu and the on
coming Louisville.
Sensing new danger. Capt. Hender
son then sent out a, call saying the
flames were “creeping again" and that
he would stand by pending the
cruiser's arrival.
Destroyers Race to Scene.
That call, at 2:31 pm. (Eastern
standard time), brought the destroyers
Rathburne. Talbot. Waters and Dent
also racing to the scene from near
Pearl Harbor, toward wffiich they were
bound.
The steamer Memphis City, which
found herself within 69 miles of the
Silverlarch, also volunteered aid. but
Capt. Henderson advised her she
could continue on her course.
Capt, Anderson asked the Louisville
for instructions on the‘handling ot
lifeboats as the cruiser approached
and soon the passengers were being
rowed to the war vessel.
The oil-laden 5.122-ton ship de
veloped a fire in her hold early Thurs
day. She reported the blaze, but
shortly thereafter advised it ap
parently was under control.
The flames leaped up again yester
day.
Several commercial ships were in
the general area, but not near enough
for a quick rescue.
D. C. WOMAN SAFE.
Escapes W’ith Shock and Cold, She
Radios Relatives.
Mrs. Katherine Grenfell, a native
of the District, one of the eight pas
sengers rescued from the burning
British ship Silverlarch. radioed to a
(See SHIR Page A-217)
WOMAN, AGED OVER 100,
EXPIRES AT D. C. HOME
Mrs. Fannie Stolar Believed to Be
102—Was Native of Poland.
Rites Tomorrow.
Mrs. Fannie Stolar, centenarian,
who, until her final illness, could see
to read and sew without eyeglasses,
and who took a daily walk until a few
weeks ago, died yesterday at her home,
734 Third street southwest.
Although her exact age is unknown
to relatives, Mrs. Stolar was believed
to be 102. Her sister died several
months ago in Poland at the age of
110.
A native of Poland, she came to
this country 13 years ago with her
husband, the late Max Stolar, to be
with their three daughters and two
sons in Detroit. Mr. Stolar died in
January, 1927, and six years ago Mrs.
Stolar came to Washington to be with
two daughters who had moved here.
Besides her five children now in this
country, she leaves a son, living in
Poland; 25 grandchildren and 23
great-grandchildren.
The sons and daughters are Mrs.
Edna Bindes, this city, and Mrs. Anna
Goldman, with whom she lived here;
Mrs. Tillie Sugarman, Detroit; Abra
ham and Joseph Stolar, both of De
troit, and Beniamin Stolar, living in
Poland.
Funeral services will be held at
10:30 a.m. tomorrow at the residence.
Burial will be in the cemetery of the
Har-Zion Congregation. .
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EITHER WAY YOU LOOK AT IT. IT'S THE SAME!
THIN MAN’ HELD
Colored Man Arrested Last
Wednesday Admits He
Took $10,000 Loot.
Residence burglaries of more than 1
$10,000 in jewelry and clothing dur
ing the past year are believed solved
by police following the arrest of Vin
cent H, Samuels, colored, 20. known
to Washington's underworld as “the
thin man."
The man. described by police as
Washington's No. 1 burglar, was ar
rested Wednesday by headquarters
detectives on F street between Ninth
and Tenth. He was identified yes
terday by Mrs. Josephine Sholl, sec
retary to Senator Duffy of Wiscon
sin, as the man she saw flee from
her apartment a short time ago.
Later she discovered that $3,000 in
jewels were missing.
Inspector Bernard W. Thompson,
chief of detectives, said Samuels con
fessed to 25 robberies in the last year
which totaled more than $10,000.
Thompson added that Samuels ex
pressed his willingness'1 to point out
at least 15 more homes which he had
robbed in the last 12 months.
Thompson said Samuels had 22
uhset diamonds in his pocket when j
he was arrested. He entered and I
escaped from the homes he robbed )
by fire escapes and windows, police I
said.
Following a “double-duty” police
patrol of the second precinct, where
four Sanitary Grocery stores have been j
robbed within the last 10 days, two j
men under suspicion in the thefts ]
were arrested yesterday when they !
stopped their car at Twenty-sixth and
P streets in front of a store. Both
men later were identified by the
managers of the four stores as the
bandits who had robbed their places
of business.
Charles C. Williamson. 43. of 626
I. street southwest, and Edward Griner,
36. of 1108 L street, were the men
arrested. Precinct Detective Frank
Ashley and Pvt. F. R. Gue. who took
the men into custody, said they found
a pistol in their car.
Samuel Rosenberg, proprietor of a
liquor store at 1792 Columbia road,
was robbed of more than $350 last
night by an armed bandit who took
the money while three customers
stood by, unaware that the store
manager was being held up. Rosen
berg said the man escaped in an
automobile, after announcing: “I don't
want to hurt anybody, so keep still.” .
2 SISTERS FOUND
DEAD IN CISTERN
Bodies Bound Together and Sui
cide Note in Bottle at
Illinois Home.
B: the Associated Press.
PRINCETON, 111., March 13—A
scribbled note in a milk bottle today
led to discovery ol the bodies of two
elderly spinsters at the bottom of a
deep cistern.
The sisters, Bess and Agnes Dann,
aged 53 and 56. respectively, were
locked in each other's arms and bound
together in death by a rope tied
loosely about their waists.
On a table in their comfortable
home, investigators found a message
informing their "dear friends” they
had been plagued for "weeks and
weeks” by "constant pain in head and
heart.”
A milkman found a note in a
bottle on the Dann doorstep Friday
asking him to send police. Officers
found no trace of Ihem then, but
Assistant Police Chief Mandus Fred
erickson located the bodies in 10 feet
of water today.
The farewell letter said in part:
"We have been taking our medi
cines religiously but I get no relief
and it is the same with us both.
We have wanted so terribly much to
get well, but as long as that is im
possible there is left but one al
ternative now.
"Peace is all we ask and perhaps
mercy will be granted us. too.
“P. S.—Won't some one please see
that our cat is put to sleep. I couldn't
manage that, too.
“(Signed) BESS.”
Deputy County Clerk T. A. Senoglio
said he learned from friends the
sisters had spurned advice that they
apply for relief. Both had been ill
for some time.
Ex-Mule Driver
To Apply Whip
To Wife-Beater
Cu m herland Sheriff
Has Technique for
10 Lashes.
B? the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND. Md . March 13 —
Sheriff George E Kemp said today
his experience in the coal mines may
give him the technique for applying
10 lashes to Gilbert Crabtree, con
victed in a magistrates court of
wife-beating.
The sheriff, a former coal miner
at Frostburg. said he had "used a
whip on the mine mules'' and knew
the proper method of "laving the
lash.” He prepared to carry out the
sentence Monday, although Crabtree
has 10 days in which to file an ap
peal.
Crtbtree a 45-year-old W P A
worker, was convicted yesterday by
Magistrate Paul M Fletcher of a
charge of beating his wife, who was
ill. The magistrate sentenced him
~See 'WHIPPING?Page A-9 )"~~
Hitler Aide Believed to Have
Fled Rather Than
Go to Spain.
BACKGROUND—
Ernst S. Hanfstaengl. jr., came
into prominence in the news
shortly after Hitler’s rise by his
frank, often termed offensive, ad
vocacy of Nazi doctrines. His
alma mater. Harvard, twice refused
$1.000 scholarships he offered, a
fact blamed on his Nazi connec
tions. He once was close to Hitler
and played ragnerian concerts for
the chancelor.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. March 13.—Ernst Sedg
wick Hanfstaengl. jr„ Harvard grad
uate and once prominent Nazi worker,
some of his friends guessed tonight,
is hiding out in the Alps rather than
carry out a supposed secret mission
to Spain.
One forme' associate of the 50
vear-old pianist asserted Hanfstaengl
remarked upon his departure Febru
ary 11:
•'I am afraid there is something
phoney about that special mission of
mine.”
He departed, friends said, on se
cret orders by Hitler (with whom he
i believed to have bee out of favor
for some time).
No Word From “Putzi."
They haven’t heard from "Putzi”
since he left, several intimates said,
but they were confident he never
(See HANFSTAENGL, Page A-9.)
Washington Office Will Be
Kept Open to Midnight
Tomorrow.
Revenue officials, anticipating in
come tax payments of S840.000.000 by
tomorrow midnight, the deadline for j
filing returns, announced last night I
that 1.500.000 persons filed their re
turns yesterday.
It was pointed out. however, that
less than half the 6,000,000 returns
expected have been turned in.
If the S840.000.000 of March re
ceipts is borne out, it will more than
double last year's collections. Officials
said they expected the returns would
show the largest number of SI.000.000
incomes since 1931, when they were
! 77.
Local Office Open in Evening.
To help out belated Washingtonians
the local office at Room 1002, Revenue
Building, Twelfth street and Consti
tution avenue, will be kept open until
midnight. The filing of returns, how
ever, is expected to reach a peak be
tween 9 30 and 10 a m. tomorrow.
Corporations, which are expected to
file between 600.000 and 800.000
returns, customarily wait until the last
day to save interest on their money. ;
Many individuals with large Incomes
also wait for the same reason.
If the usual trend is maintained,
most lower-bracket income taxes will
be paid in full by tomorrow's dead
line, while many upper-bracket indi
viduals and corporations will take
advantage of the Government's
"installment plan." This permits
them to remit in four quarterly
payments.
Lower Brackets Pay in Full.
In recent years, about 73 per cent
of taxpayers with incomes of less than
$5,000 have paid in full by March 15,
while only 58 per cent of those with
incomes in excess of $5,000 have paid
in one lump sum.
Several recent changes in the
income tax laws apply for the first j
time to this year's returns. They
include a new undistributed profits
tax. an increase from 59 to 75 per cent
in maximum surtax rates on individ
uals. and a requirement that dividend
receipts be subjected to normal income
taxes
Officials estimated the revisions
would account for at least $150,000,000 1
of the March collections and would
“7See INCOME TAXES, Page A-S. V
DELAYED BY STORM
Mrs. Roosevelt Hour Behind
Schedule on Tour.
OKLAHOMA CITY. March 13 </P).
—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled
an hour behind schedule today as her
entourage battled a wintry storm from
Alva to El Reno.
She spoke briefly at El Reno, where
she dedicated a National Youth Ad
I ministration center, then came here.
Woman Slayer Rouses Slightly
From Self-Imposed Lethargy
Be the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 13.—Mrs.
Helen Wills Love, 31, convicted jeal
ousy slayer, who said she could will
her own death, roused somewhat today
from the apparently self-inflicted
lethargy which has held her to her
county jail cell cot since Thursday
night.
Asked if she would die, jail physi
cian, Benjaman Blank, said: “Not a
chance."
Dr. Blank and Dr. Harlan Shoe
maker of the county hospital ex
pressed belief Mrs. Love willed herself
into a coma to avert sentencing yes
terday on a second-degree murder
conviction in the New Year eve
shooting of Harry Love, 45, broker to
whom she said she was married
secretly.
Pronouncement of sentence, which
may be from seven years to life im
prisonment, was postponed until Mon
day.
Mrs. Love, who had shown few signs
of animation, aroused slightly today
and muttered: “Harry, Harry, Harry.
Don’t go. Don't go.”
She lapsed into the trance like
condition about 9:30 p.m. Thursday
after she told jail matron, Vada Sul
livan :
"I can sit in this chair or lie on
this bed and kill myself by will power.
I can make myself die whenever I
want to."
Since then Mrs. Love had taken no
nourishment or drink except a few
spoons of water. This morning. Dr.
Blank injected into her right arm a
glucose and saline solution. He said
this was to "sustain vitality and pre
vent dehydration.”
Until she spoke today she had been
silent and motionless most of the
time and had responded only slightly
to pin pricks and a powerful stimu
lant. She turned over occasionally,
arms folded acress her chest, and
sometimes extended or drew up her
legs.
Her color, pulse, respiration and
temperature have remained in normal
range, physicians reported.
Mrs. Love's brother, Henry Wills,
called at the jail this morning and
said she had been roused from a pre
vious similar condition by the playing
of soft, classical music. He suggested
this be tried again.
For the time, Dr. Blank turned a
deaf ear to the suggestion.
A jury convicted her of slaying
Love at a Santa Monica beach club
last New Year eve. She said he
broke a holiday date with her to dine
with his mother, Mrs. Cor* Love, club
woman. *nd accused the latter of ■
trying to wreck the marriage.
4
MOVE 10 UNIONIZE
ELECTRIC WORKERS
OPENED BV C. 1.0.
Leaders Confer With Gen
eral Electric Officials on
Bargaining Tomorrow.
AGREEMENT SIGNED
BY G. M. C. WORKERS
Parleys Sought With A. T <fc T.
and Westinghouse—Meet With
Steel Head Tomorrow.
BACKGROUND—
Present intensified drive for
unionized labor dates back to split
last year between American Fed
eration of Labor officials and John
L. Lewis over craft vs. industrial
organization. Lewis’ unions were
suspended from A. F of L., pursued
active organizing. First big offen
sive was automobile industry, where
series of sit-down strikes halted
work in General Motors plants
early in this year. Finally G M.
agreed to meet Lewis' Committee
for Industrial Organization in ne
gotiations. These talks now are
being held.
By tne Associated Press.
The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization thrust another iron into
the blazing labor fire yesterday—aim
ing at unionization of the million or
more workers in the electrical manu
facturing and communication fields.
The executive board of the United
Electrical and Radio Workers of Amer
ica. C. I O. affiliate, prepared to open
collective bargaining conferences with
the General Electric Co. at New York
tomorrow and planned to seek similar
parleys with the Westinghouse Elec
tric & Manufacturing Co. and the
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
General Electric employs 60.000: West
inghouse 45,000. Looking beyond these
"big three.’ William Mitchell, national
representative of the union, asserted:
"We are going to organize them alL
We have organizers all over the coun
try.”
Presses Huge Drives.
The C I. O. is pressing concurrent
drives in the huge steel and automotive
industries: dickering for new contracts
for 450.000 soft coal miners: girding
for campaigns among the 2.225.000 on
the pay rolls of oil and textile firms.
Detroit witnessed a mass scale dem
onstration by C I. O. folders.
Marching to the blare of a 12-piece
band, thousands of members of the
United Automobile Workers’ Union
formed two endless chains and. moving
in opposite directions, gyrated about
the Wayne County Court House. In
side. Judge Allan Campbell deferred
until tomorrow a decision on the
Chrysler Motor Co.'s petition for an
injunction tp evict strikers holding
eight of its plants. The union de
mands exclusive bargaining rights for
60.000 Chrysler employes.
High officials of the U. A. W. affixed
their signatures at 12:25 o’clock this
morning (Sunday) to an agreement on
the issues that precipitated wide
spread strikes in General Motor*
plants in January.
General Motors officials, who al
ready have signified them approval of
the document, will sign it either today
or Monday.
Delegates from locals in General
Motors plants in six States ratified
the agreement shortly before midnight
after a 13-hour meeting, during which
vigorous objections were raised to
some of the terms.
Majority “Substantial."
A union spokesman said that the
affirmative majority was "substan
tial" in the viva voce vote taken at
the conclusion of the prolonged ses
sion. although there was a "scattering
of opposition."
Subsequently, the delegates voted
to make the ratification unanimous.
The pact did not include the 30
hour week and national minimum
hourly wage clauses requested by
the union, but did provide seniority
rights and machinery for settlement
of grievances designed to prevent
future walkouts.
While Michigan strikes kept nearly
70.000 idle in Chrysler, Hudson and
Reo automobile plants and left other
thousands on the jobless sidelines in
other industries. Gov. Frank Murphy
took a long stride in the direction of
peace.
He called representatives of the
general public, employers and employes
to a meeting next Wednesday to evolve
a program for dealing with pending or
threatened labor controversies.
Indications of an early understand
ing on wages and hours between
(See labor. Page A-4.)
FARMHAND, 17, IS HELD
AS BEATING KILLS BOY, 7
Lad Found Unconscious Beneath
Straw Pile by Brother.
Hammer Nearby.
By the Associated Press.
SARNIA, Ontario, March 13.—
Seven-year-old John Luckins died this
afternoon from the effects of a savage
beating, shortly after William La
badie, 17-year-old farm laborer, had
appeared in court on a charge of
assault to occasion great bodily harm.
Provincial police said the charge
against Labadie undoubtedly would
be changed Monday to murder. They
indicated that the young farm hand
had made a statement, but declined
to disclose what he had said. The
youth, who formerly lived at Monroe,
Mich., was employed on the farm of
Thomas C. Luckins, father of the
slain child.
A brother of the Luckins boy
found him unconscious beneath a
straw pile at his farm home yester
day. He was bound with rope and
a blood stained rock and hammer lay
nearby.
Labadie had disappeared. He was
found aeveral hours later at the
home of his grandfather, James
Campbell, near Brigden, Ontario.
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